June 25-28, 2013

Report of the 23rd International Technical Conference on the Enhanced

Safety of Vehicles

KWON Sok-Chang

Director General for Motor Vehicle Policy Bureau

Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT)

Republic of Korea

Informal document WP.29-160-25(160th WP.29, 25-28 June 2013,agenda item 8.6)

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Backgrounds

The ESV Program originated in 1970 under the NATO Committee

on the Challenges of the Modern Society

Member Countries supporting the ESV program Governments: U.S., France, Germany, Italy, U.K., Japan, Sweden.

Canada, Australia, Netherlands, Hungary, Poland, the Republic of Korea International Organizations: EC, and EEVC

In June 2005, the 19th ESV Conference, held in Washington, DC,

the Republic of Korea became one of the member Governments

In 2011, the 22nd ESV conference, announced that the Republic of

Korea will be host of the 23rd ESV conference

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Conference Details

Theme Research Collaboration to Benefit Safety of All Users

Date May 27 (Mon) ~ 30 (Thu), 2013

Venue Coex, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT) Korea Transportation Safety Authority (KOSTA)

U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)Organized by

Hosted by

1,113 participants from 21 countries (domestic: 764, abroad: 349)Attendee

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Major Events

Opening ceremony

ESV 2013 award

Plenary / Special / Technical session

Government status report

Exhibition

Technical tour

Closing ceremony

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Opening Ceremony

Key Note Speech: Suh Seoung-hwan, Minister of MOLIT

Highlighting strong collective efforts to enhance the vehicle safety

Welcome Remarks: David L. Strickland, Administrator of NHTSA

Encouraging participants as international safety partners

Official Remarks: Chung Il-young, President of KOTSA

Expecting more precious ideas for the better future

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ESV 2013 Award Recipients

U.S. Government Special Awards of Appreciation

5 Persons: Germany, Korea (2), Sweden, U.S.

U.S. Government Awards for Safety Engineering Excellence

5 Persons: Germany, Japan, Korea (2), Sweden

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Plenary Session

Theme: Global Collaboration for Vehicles Safety Research Collaboration area: crash protection, crash avoidance, and future vehicles

Good Example of Global Collaboration: HFC vehicles GTR by WP.29

Research Collaboration Principles - Global approach, Local Application - Data Driven, Culturally Sensitive - Standardized Data Collection, Standardized Test Protocol

Future Collaboration: Connected Vehicles, Advanced Automatic Crash Notification - Too big for one institute to handle - Standardized Communication Protocol, Communication Security

To harmonize regulations is to find meaningful ways

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Special Session / Workshop

Crash Avoidance Collaboration offers many positive benefits to the public and other stakeholders, leverages resources to address common needs and interest and enables global harmonization

The biggest challenge is not a technical one. The biggest challenge is mistrust and behavior

Crashworthiness We must refrain from "claiming the victory too early" and not start to cut down on passive safety before the effectiveness of crash avoidance is proven

Biomechanics Dummy development and assessment Human body and ATD model development and validation Accident reconstructions, injury risk curves, …

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Technical Sessions

More than 240 papers were presented and discussed

Active safety: safety performance and effectiveness of driver assistance technologies, …

Passive safety: performance of protection systems, restraint system design and performance challenges

Biomechanics: crash injury mechanisms and human modeling, crash test dummies, …

Electric vehicles, battery and fuel cell safety

NCAP and non regulatory approaches for improving safety

Student safety technology design competition

International Rulemaking: GTR Process and Beyond

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Australia National road safety strategy 2011-2020 was established in 2011 5 areas of activity: safe roads, speeds, vehicles, people and making it happen

Japan The 9th fundamental traffic safety program for 2011-2015 set in March 2011 Japan would like to collaborate internationally to establish GTR

Korea 30% reduction of road traffic fatalities year 2013-2017 Established 1st automotive policy master plan (2012-2016) in 2012

Sweden EU for Sweden 50% reduction of fatalities year 2001-2010 (achieved) Sweden approximately 220 in year 2020 (50% reduction/10 years)

U.S. Major rulemaking Initiatives: EDR, pedestrian safety, hydrogen GTR, … Near term priority research: oblique / low overlap frontal, advanced forward collision avoidance, V2V communications, distraction, … New area of focus: older occupant, electronic control systems, automated vehicles, …

Government Status Reports

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Exhibitions

Under the theme of “Vehicle Safety Technology”, major automobile companies, auto parts manufacturers, NHTSA and MOLIT participated and provided various attractions (Total 30 companies / organizations)

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Social Program

Welcome Reception

More than 700 people participated

Great networking opportunity with the

play of fantastic Korean traditional music

Gala Dinner

295 participants (201 foreign)

Attendees experienced the high level

of Korean traditional culture

(like Taekwondo performance)

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Technical Tour

Korea Automobile Testing & Research Institute

Samsung Digital City & Hyundai Motor Company

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Closing Ceremony

Farewell Remarks

Student Competition Winners Winner: California Polytechnic State University 2nd Place: Seoul National University

Next ESV Conference Goteborg Sweden, June 8-11, 2015

Closing Remarks

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Thank you for your attention!